Privacy Policy

DIRECTS is committed to the protection of your privacy, and will treat all of the information you provide through DIRECTS Web site, including your registration information, with the utmost respect. DIRECTS works diligently to ensure that it has taken all appropriate administrative and technical measures to prevent the unauthorized or unlawful use of your personally identifiable information, and to prevent any accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, such information. DIRECTS will not sell or disclose personally identifiable information about you to unaffiliated third parties except in accordance with this "Privacy Policy".

Collection of Information

DIRECTS Web site collects certain information about visitors, even when they are not logged in. DIRECTS may record your IP address, the URLs of the Web sites and pages you visit (before, during and after your visit to DIRECTS Web site), the times and dates of such visits, information about the computer hardware and software you use and other information that may be available. Also, DIRECTS may place "cookies" on your computer to recognize you on return visits to enable DIRECTS to enhance your browsing experience, as well as to collect additional information about you. You may adjust your browser settings or use other means to prevent cookies from being placed on your computer, but doing so may result in reduced functionality and a less personalized browsing experience.

DIRECTS may ask you to provide certain additional information about yourself, including your name, contact information, the organization you come from and certain other information that DIRECTS may use to identify you. If you choose not to provide such information, you may not be permitted to access certain Firm Web site features, content or services.

Use of Information

DIRECTS uses the information that it collects about you to improve your browsing experience by personalizing DIRECTS Web sites to your interest, and also to help DIRECTS select content and services that you may find interesting and useful. Information about the content you visit and services you use may be used alone or in conjunction with information collected from other users to help DIRECTS tailor DIRECTS Web site and its other products and services to better suit the needs and interests of you and other users.

Information that you provide may also be used as part of DIRECTS 's effort to keep you informed about events, and selected products and services that may be of interest to you. In some cases, DIRECTS may contact you with information from carefully selected third parties, but DIRECTS will not provide information to third parties for such purposes. In other cases, your information might be shared with a third party pursuant to a process that contemplates such sharing but which you knowingly initiate.

DIRECTS reserves the right to disclose any information that it obtains through DIRECTS Web site to appropriate governmental or regulatory authorities, if required by law or any governmental agency.

Transfers of Information

From time to time, DIRECTS may disclose information about you to carefully selected service providers that DIRECTS may engage to host Firm Web site or to provide other services. DIRECTS will require all such service providers to use the information solely to provide the specified services, and otherwise to conform to the requirements of this Privacy Policy. Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, DIRECTS will not provide your information to third parties for any other purpose, including marketing.

Additional Services

From time to time, DIRECTS may offer additional services through DIRECTS Web site. In some cases additional services may be subject to alternative terms of use (as identified by DIRECTS ), and your use of any such services will constitute your acceptance of such alternative terms of use. Unless otherwise stated, such alternative terms of use shall apply to supplement this Agreement and in the context of any conflicting terms, this Agreement shall govern with respect to DIRECTS Web sites, content and services, excepting only those services which are expressly covered, and then only to the extent so expressly covered, by such alternative terms.

Information Sent by way of the Web Site is not Secure

Any information sent to DIRECTS by Internet e-mail or through the Web site is not secure and is done so on a non-confidential basis. Any information you send DIRECTS over the Internet, either through DIRECTS 's Web site or via email is done at your own risk.

Sending Information Does not Form an Attorney - Client Relationship

Transmission of information from this Web site does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and DIRECTS , nor is it intended to do so. The transmission of the Web site, in part or in whole, and/or any communication with us via Internet e-mail through this site does not constitute or create an attorney-client relationship between us and any recipients.

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DIRECTS' clients are non-US investors from countries throughout the world (China and Canada top of the list) with US real estate throughout the United States. The majority of DIRECTS' clients are non-US investors with real estate in Southern California (with many clients in particular with real estate in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego County and the Palm Springs area). In these counties, some "hotbeds" for foreign investor activity are cities such as Los Angeles (including Beverly Hills), Arcadia, Newport Beach, Irvine (Irvine is very popular with Chinese investors), San Diego, and of course Palm Springs (which is very popular with Canadian investors). We also typically see a fair number of clients with real estate sales from Northern California (a lot from San Francisco), Arizona and Nevada (usually Las Vegas) as well. And each year we see clients with US real estate from states and areas which are not our usual (Florida, Pennsylvania, Idaho and Washington, D.C. of late), and we welcome them as well.